On Feb 3, 2007, at 21:37 , Isaac Jones wrote:
The way I propose to solve this version incompatibility problem in the short term is to use the "testing" hackage repository to collect packages that are known to work together. For instance, we could put haxml 1.17 in and only allow things that compile with that version. unstable can still have stuff that only compiles w/ 1.13, but if an author wants their tool to be in "testing", then they have to fix it up to be compatible. (Or we might decide that 1.13 is a better version to have in testing.)
This will encouarage people to update their packages with a collection of dependencies that are somewhat "blessed", even if that blessing is a little arbitrary.
We can ourselves modify packages so that their version dependency is more accurate than upstream knows them to be :)
Is there a way to get that working smoothly with the web interface? I guess we could have a separate web interface installation for each "distribution", but maybe some built-in support could make it nicer to use? /Björn